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OPINION: Divestment is hitting where it hurts
TRILLIONS of dollars of investments are being taken out of carbon-intensive companies, says BILL McKIBBEN. Governments must now take notice.http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=15705
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=15705Tue, 18 Dec 2018 09:00:00 Bill McKibben
OPINION: When will the real action begin?
The Government's Emissions Trading Scheme announcement this week has left carbon forestry pioneer Dr MURRAY McCLINTOCK, of Nelson company Carbon Farm, underwhelmed and asking when the real action on combatting climate change will begin.http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=15693
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=15693Fri, 14 Dec 2018 10:00:00
OPINION: Attenborough has betrayed the living world
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; By GEORGE MONBIOT,&nbsp;Guardian columnist
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BY DOWNPLAYING our...http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=15483
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=15483Thu, 08 Nov 2018 10:00:00 George Monbiot
TRIBUTE: Climate-change pioneer Bernard Forde
Dr Bernard John Forde, MBE JP PhD.
Born February 17, 1935, died October 11, 2018.
By ADELIA HALLETT
Today is the funeral of a man who...http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=15358
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=15358Tue, 16 Oct 2018 10:00:00 Dr Bernard Forde
OPINION: It's time for the trackless tram
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http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=15248Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:00:00 Peter Newman
OPINION: The answer's not a better kind of coffee cup
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http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=15193Tue, 18 Sep 2018 10:00:00
OPINION: A dangerous political compromise
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;...http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=15188
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=15188Mon, 17 Sep 2018 10:00:00
OPINION: Politicians, get your heads out of the coal pit
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http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=15177Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:00:00
OPINION: Don't be fooled, weather is not climate
By KATE MARVEL
Columbia University climate scientist
I'm going to say something controversial. As a climate scientist, I predict a sustained, noticeable, and...http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=15133
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=15133Fri, 07 Sep 2018 10:00:00
OPINION: Good intentions are not enough
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http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=15049Thu, 23 Aug 2018 09:00:00
OPINION: Climate denial soon won't even benefit oil companies
A global heat map shows how temperatures are soaring across the planet during the summer of...http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=14924
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=14924Thu, 02 Aug 2018 10:00:00
OPINION: Let's charge the high-emitting vehicles
Toyota New Zealand chief executive
ALISTAIR DAVIS says a "feebate" scheme
would lead to a shift to low-emissions vehicles
THE Productivity Commission's draft on the move to a low-carbon emission economy through a Zero...http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=14711
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=14711Wed, 27 Jun 2018 10:00:00 Alastair Davis
OPINION: If energy grew on trees
A loader transports biomass fuel at Azwood Energy's Tasman Fuel Hub at Brightwater
By JONATHAN McKEOWN, Azwood Energy
It is always...http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=14667
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=14667Wed, 20 Jun 2018 11:00:00
OPINION: Military won't ride to the rescue
By NICK BUXTON, of the
Transnational Institute
THE AUSTRALIAN Senate's declaration last month that climate change is a "current and existential...http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=14593
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=14593Fri, 08 Jun 2018 12:00:00 Nick Buxton
OPINION: Welcome to the revolution
Climate minister JAMES SHAW says we're in the midst
of a new Industrial Revolution - and that's why
he's asking for input on the Zero Carbon Bill...http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=14597
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=14597Thu, 07 Jun 2018 12:45:00 James Shaw
OPINION: Meet Justin Trudeau, the newest oil executive
By BILL McKIBBEN, climate activist
In case anyone wondered, this is how the world ends: with the cutest, progressivest, boybandiest leader in the world going fully in the tank for the oil industry.http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=14568
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=14568Fri, 01 Jun 2018 09:00:00
OPINION: Beware of a grumpy public
By NEIL WALKER, Taranaki Regional Councillor
In Gilbert and Sullivan's opera The Gondoliers, we hear about a king "in wonder working days of old whose heart was twice...http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=14559
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=14559Thu, 31 May 2018 10:00:00 Niel Walker
OPINION: Ministers have gone deaf
Brian Cox
The Productivity Commission might be talking about big things from the energy sector, but the Government doesn't seem to want to know, says Bioenergy Association chief executive BRIAN COX.http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=14374
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=14374Mon, 30 Apr 2018 11:00:00 Brian Cox
OPINION: What the shipping deal really means
Real hard work is about to begin after last week's deal at the IMO, writes BILL HEMMINGS, shipping director at Transport &amp; Environment, a sustainability NGO.&nbsp;
THERE'S&nbsp;good news. Shipping will need to embrace the concept...http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=14331
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=14331Fri, 20 Apr 2018 10:00:00
OPINION Language in a time of climate change
By ROB NIXON, Professor of the Humanities and the Environment at Princeton University
LANGUAGE&nbsp;bends and buckles under pressure of climate change. Take the adjective 'glacial'.http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=14200
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=14200Mon, 26 Mar 2018 10:00:00
OPINION: Empty half the Earth of its humans
By KIM STANLEY ROBINSON, an American writer of science fiction
PEOPLE TEND to like cities, and have been congregating in them ever since the invention of agriculture, 10,000 or so years ago. That's why we call it civilisation.http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=14185
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=14185Thu, 22 Mar 2018 10:00:00
OPINION: Why natural gas won't do the job
Climate and energy expert Professor RALPH SIMS explains why natural gas is not a "bridging" fuel between dirtier fossil fuels and low-carbon energy. Searching for it and using it, he says, will delay New Zealand reaching its Paris Agreement...http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=14162
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=14162Mon, 19 Mar 2018 11:00:00
OPINION: We should adopt the 'easy win' way
Brian Cox
By Bioenergy Association chief executive BRIAN COX | Government officials appear to be putting more effort into working out how to purchase international carbon credits than into reducing the country's greenhouse gas...http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=14022
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=14022Thu, 22 Feb 2018 10:00:00 Brian Cox
OPINION: Kiwi consumers push sustainability
Research showing New Zealanders rank climate change as the world's greatest threat should have businesses sitting up. Public relations and corporate responsibility expert NIKKI WRIGHT explains why.
NEW ZEALAND businesses that plan to...http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=13910
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=13910Fri, 02 Feb 2018 11:00:00
OPINION: Adaption versus mitigation
Adaptation is about survival. Mitigation is about finding and implementing solutions to prevent the need to go into survival mode, says DR ANN SMITH chief executive of Enviro-Mark Solutionshttp://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=12624
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=12624Tue, 20 Jun 2017 09:00:00
OPINION: Just another attempt to spread confusion
Senior climate scientist PROFESSOR JAMES RENWICK goes looking for the facts in the latest so-called scandal about climate change.http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=11850
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=11850Mon, 13 Feb 2017 09:00:00
Tourism can make the world cleaner and greener
OPINION | Tourism can be a force for good - depending how you do it, say World Tourism Organisation director-general TALEB RIFAI, United Nations Environment executive director ERIK SOLHEIM and UNFCCC head PATRICIA ESPINOSA.http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=11814
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=11814Tue, 07 Feb 2017 09:00:00
CIRCULAR ECONOMY: Can waste solve the waste problem?
OPINION | Aurecon's manufacturing market director Tim Plenderleith takes a glimpse at the future of manufacturing in a resource-constrained world.
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=11801
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=11801Fri, 03 Feb 2017 11:00:00
LETTER: Stern Report 10 years later
INTELLIGENCE for the carbon market, eh? - as you claim in today's (Carbon News Oct 31) bit headed "Stern Words".http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=11397
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=11397Wed, 02 Nov 2016 09:00:00
The case for overhead charging of EVs
IDTechEx chair Dr Peter Harrop makes a case for overhead charging for electric vehicles:
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=10426
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=10426Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:00:00
OPINION: Government is Johnny on the spot
By Dr SEAN WEAVER, Ekos founder and executive director | Imagine a rugby game where a group of very capable players tries to help one player called Johnny to simply catch the ball and run and score a try.http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=10118
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=10118Mon, 16 May 2016 11:00:00 Sean Weaver
Can engineers change the world?
Can technology solve the climate problem? Dr Susan P Krumdieck outlines her work on a new interdisciplinary practice called transition engineering: changing course one innovative project at a time.
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=10098
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=10098Thu, 12 May 2016 11:00:00 Susan Krumdieck
OPINION: It's nuts to open more coal mines
Work on the Denniston Plateau has now stopped. CINDY BAXTER, of Coal Action Network Aotearoa, argues that it's a sign the coal industry is in its death throes.http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=9669
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=9669Tue, 15 Mar 2016 10:00:00 Denniston
OPINION: Our forest industry is heading south
By Forest Owners' Association technical manager GLEN MACKIE.- New Zealand's third-largest export industry, forestry, is steadily shrinking.
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=9489
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=9489Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:00:00 Glen Mackie
There's nothing silly about photovoltaics in roads
Installing photovoltaics in roads isn't as daft as it sounds - especially if they are supported by roadside wind turbines and tethered multicopters, says IDTechEx chair Dr Peter Harrop.http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=9452
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=9452Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:00:00
The VW affair: It's about honesty and transparency
As Volkswagen has found out, sustainability is about much more than promises to customers, says Professor FRANCISCO SZEKELY of the IMD Global Centre for Sustainability Leadership in Switzerland. It requires honesty and transparency, too.http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=9124
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=9124Mon, 05 Oct 2015 12:00:00
Our climate plan is inadequate
Solar Living director JASON TOBIN and EnaSolar general manager TREVOR FOSTER on why the Government's climate change plan is inadequate:http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=9049
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=9049Mon, 14 Sep 2015 10:00:00
What really happened with Kyoto ERUs
Emissions trading needs to be backed by ambitious targets, transparent reporting and international accountability if it is to be effective in tackling climate change, says Motu Economic and Public Policy Research fellow CATHERINE LEINING. http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=9029
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=9029Mon, 07 Sep 2015 14:00:00
It's time for packaging that cares about the future
Our Daily Waste founder Dr SHARON McIVER on why how smart businesses are future-proofing by getting rid of plastic packaging now.http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=8954
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=8954Mon, 17 Aug 2015 12:00:00
OPINION: New Zealand should be using its abundant renewable electricity generation capacity to power its transport fleet, argues BOB BINGHAM:
Oil is a fantastic high energy and very portable fuel and currently it's very cheap In fact, it has almost always been cheap and plentiful and we have built a good life with it. So what's the problem?http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=8710
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=8710Mon, 25 May 2015 14:00:00 Bob Bingham ... we are very vulnerable.
Why the Government's forestry policies are not working
Labour Party climate changes spokesperson MEGAN WOODS on why the Government's forestry policies are failing:http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=8701
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=8701Mon, 18 May 2015 12:00:00 Megan Woods ... bullying tactics.
Why we must join the clean energy race (and quickly)
SolarCity founder and chief executive ANDREW BOOTH argues for 100 per cent renewable electricity generation in New Zealand by 2025:http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=8675
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=8675Mon, 11 May 2015 12:00:00 Andrew Booth ... asking for action.
Worth listening to …
Treasury's chief economist, Dr Girol Karacaoglu, talks toRadio New Zealand National's Kim Hill about how sustainability is being factored into the economy.http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=8680
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=8680Mon, 11 May 2015 12:00:00
New Zealand's defective law on climate change, by Sir Geoffrey Palmer
Distinguished law fellow Sir Geoffrey Palmer, QC, has been at or near the heart of our attempts to tackled climate change for nearly three decades. http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=8471
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=8471Mon, 23 Feb 2015 14:00:00
NORMAN: The longer we wait the more it will cost
By RUSSEL NORMAN, Green Party co-leader.- Thanks to Federated Farmers' incoming president William Rolleston for taking the time to write about the Green Party's Climate Tax Cut in last week's Carbon News.
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=7881
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=7881Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:00:00 Russel Norman ... biggest challenge of our time.
Carbon tax won't fix troubled ETS, says report
New Zealand's emissions price beacon is "obscured in the fog of policy uncertainty", but dumping it in favour of a carbon tax isn't the only way to fix it, say Motu Research's Catherine Leining and Suzi Kerr. http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=7850
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=7850Fri, 27 Jun 2014 10:00:00
Carbon tax call is all about playing politics
By CHARLES ETHERINGTON, Warren Forestry Ltd.- The Greens are giving the impression of being ahead on the topic of a carbon tax versus the Emissions Trading Scheme, but, as usual, they are actually behind and just playing politics.
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=7817
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=7817Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:00:00 Charles Etherington ... bold words.
Big sports events can come with a high social price tag
By AILEEN IONESCU-SOMERS.- The World Cup in Brazil is again putting the spotlight on the sustainability, legacy and license to operate of large global sporting events.http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=7821
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=7821Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:00:00
Why we need clear emissions-reduction reporting
STEPHEN KNIGHT-LENIHAN, JULIA HARKER and PRUE TAYLOR argue for transparent emissions-reduction reporting, in the same way that we report on the share market and exchange rates.http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=7803
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=7803Fri, 13 Jun 2014 10:00:00
Beware the greenwashed air travel offer
By SHARON BEDER, honorary professor at the University of Wollongong.- When was the last time you booked a flight? That extra $A1 in the final stages of booking may seem a small price to pay for offsetting the carbon emissions you generate travelling...http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=7757
http://carbonnews.co.nz/story.asp?storyid=7757Fri, 30 May 2014 10:00:00